Is It Time To Remove Sand?

[Sylvester]

Best news ever! I’m going to get on it asap !

 

[Tamberav]

Might be dino, its not uncommon after chemi clean - you chemcially kill one thing, another tanks it's place.

 

[ieatbugman]

It is a 20 gallon tank, tall. The light is a smatfarm 60 watt i think. And the blues and violets are at 100 %. And the whites are at 70%. I don’t know the par levels sadly, i don’t want to pay money for one and everything is going fine right now so i don’t feel a need to rent or buy one

Yes but at what intensity and duration?

Duration is 14 hours

 

[Sylvester]

I’ve been treating tank for 3 weeks and I took a sample today. The Dino’s are there but they ain’t moving. Are they dead? I attached a pic as well

 

[Moe K]

What treatment did you use?

 

[Sylvester]

What treatment did you use?

I bumped up Nitrate to 10 and Phosphate to 0.09 and dosed 30 ml of Excel silicate till I got to 0.1. No water change for 1 month along with tons of new Pods and Microbacter 7 daily 4 caps. Do they look dead. They don’t move

 

[Moe K]

I bumped up Nitrate to 10 and Phosphate to 0.09 and dosed 30 ml of Excel silicate till I got to 0.1. No water change for 1 month along with tons of new Pods and Microbacter 7 daily 4 caps. Do they look dead. They don’t move

They don't die that way I dont believe. They could be in a cyst state for all we know. They should disappear. With silicate dosing you are not done until you can not find a single dino on a slide sample. It could take a month if you are lucky or it could take a year.

 

[Sylvester]

They don't die that way I dont believe. They could be in a cyst state for all we know. They should disappear. With silicate dosing you are not done until you can not find a single dino on a slide sample. It could take a month if you are lucky or it could take a year.

Ah okay. Well I guess the battle continues lol

 

[Moe K]

May the reef gods be with you

 

[Sylvester]

May the reef gods be with you

Most appreciative the blessing lol

 

[buruskeee]

The one thing about LCA is that they’re not toxic - they just ugly on the sand. They will eventually go away once your biome suppresses them. I wouldn’t stress over them.

 

[Sylvester]

The one thing about LCA is that they’re not toxic - they just ugly on the sand. They will eventually go away once your biome suppresses them. I wouldn’t stress over them.

I’ve been battling everyday. Do you think I just dose silicates and try to siphon out or just let it be.

 

[MindlessToxin]

Sand Bed UV Sweeper by 3dReefing has anyone tried it?

Hi all, I've had some issues with dinos on my sand for a while now. I got rid of em for a few months, but then a recent over autofeeding while away kicked em back up again. I know the diatom outcompete route is one of the most effective, but I just came across this at 3dReefing. It's out of...

www.reef2reef.com

This may be worth a read. Sounds like there has been some positive results(LCA is noted). I actually went into a coral store on vacation in FL a couple weeks ago and seen them using one lol.

 

[Sylvester]

Sand Bed UV Sweeper by 3dReefing has anyone tried it?

Hi all, I've had some issues with dinos on my sand for a while now. I got rid of em for a few months, but then a recent over autofeeding while away kicked em back up again. I know the diatom outcompete route is one of the most effective, but I just came across this at 3dReefing. It's out of...

www.reef2reef.com

This may be worth a read. Sounds like there has been some positive results(LCA is noted). I actually went into a coral store on vacation in FL a couple weeks ago and seen them using one lol

I have seen this sweeper. What about the beneficial bacteria? Does it kill everything in it's path lol

 

[buruskeee]

The sweeper is something you can do more immediately but you'll have to pay to play and use some elbow grease. IMO, LCAs are not problematic, just visually not very pretty. You can use bacteria, but until it gets suppressed by something else, it won't go away. When using the sweeper, definitely dose a bit of bacteria to help occupy the spaces the LCA was one prior.

 

[Moe K]

Disclaimer - I own 3DReefing.
It works. The UV Sweeper does what silicate dosing will do just at an accelerated rate. Rather than weeks to months it will be days and you will have white sand again. Consistent microscope samples showed the micro-organisms beneath a thin layer of sand are unaffected. You have to follow the instructions.

Here is how it works -

 

[Sylvester]

Disclaimer - I own 3DReefing.
It works. The UV Sweeper does what silicate dosing will do just at an accelerated rate. Rather than weeks to months it will be days and you will have white sand again. Consistent microscope samples showed the micro-organisms beneath a thin layer of sand are unaffected. You have to follow the instructions.

Here is how it works -

Nice to meet ya lol
Okay well I’ll be purchasing thing sweeper and fingers crossed it helps